Gerhard Kuemmel Bundeswehr Institute of Social Research, Germany

Gerhard Kümmel is a German political scientist and military sociologist. He is a research director at the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences at the German Armed Forces and Chairman of the Working Group on Military and Social Sciences. Kummel studied from 1985 to 1991 political science, sociology and history at the University of Marburg (MA). A fellow of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, he was in 1994 by Wilfried von Bredow [1] at the Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy with the dissertation Transnational economic cooperation in a turbulent international to Dr. phil. doctorate. In 1992 he was Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Washington, DC, USA. From 1995 to 1997 he was post-doc -Stipendiat the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In 1997 he spent as a lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

From 1997 to 2012, he was a research associate at the Institute of Social Sciences Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Strausberg. In 1998 he became project manager at SOWI. From 2006 to 2012, he headed the research topic "" Transformation of the Bundeswehr "". In 2013, he became head of the research department ""Military Sociology"" at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam. The current research priorities as Scientific Director include women in the military, military families and forces in the post-heroic society. In 1999 he also took on a political science and sociology lecturer at the University of Potsdam, where he since 2007 Militärsoziologie in Degree Military Studies teaches.

Since 2010, cumin President of the ISA Research Committee ""Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution"" of the International Sociological Association and since 2000 Chairman of the Working Group on Military and Social Sciences (AMS) of the Nomos publishing the series Military and Social Sciences publishes. In addition, he is a member of the German Sociological Association and the German Association of Political Science.